Lavoisier
[,la:vwə'zjei]
Definition
(noun.) French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794).
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Examples
- So that among the founders of our science, next to the name of the great French Philosopher, Lavoisier, will stand in future ages the name of John Dalton, of Manchester. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Lavoisier had laid deep and broad in France the foundations of chemistry, and given the science nomenclature that lasted a century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He read two books, Lavoisier’s Elements of Chemistry, and Nicholson’s Dictionary of Chemistry, and rushed from them to experiment for himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Lavoisier, to show that the strongest fire we yet know is made in charcoal blown upon with dephlogisticated air. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At the sa me time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Lavoisier had given it, indeed, the name oxygen (acid-producer) on that supposition. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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